EVE General Discussion

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What?
You do realize you can't place two jump bridges in the same system, right?
That means to keep going on my route, I have to go through at least one stargate to get to the next jump bridge.

How do I "feel"? ehh.. my desire to get involved in the wonders of game politics is limited to almost non-existent. 0.0 pretty much sux for that reason alone, more than just the involvement of the goons in this game, but that certainly a substantial factor in the surmounting problems.

What could be done? Change the EULA to 18yo and older to be a subscriber? I think that would pretty much devastate the goons if enforced, among other such 0.0 groups.

It seems like all CCP needs to do is change the direction of some of the market forces that prop up the goons. Redistributing the moon tech would be one idea. Implementing more significant upkeep costs on ships and POSs would be another. If the goons really have as many ships/structures as people say then they can certainly afford to spend some on upkeep. Plus since they seem to have a large collection of super caps, if upkeep grew exponentially with ship size they would have to divert significant resources just to maintain their fleet.

Another thing you could do is adjust the sec status of null outside of goonspace. That would give other alliances more resources. You could also just wholesale ban goon members that have made a point of "breaking the game"... Since they have basically become the mexican drug cartels of EvE you could also just do what mexico wants the US to do and "Legalize". By this I mean give out free **** to everyone else in some covert manner.

The list goes on.

Agenda spotted.

Same way other games do, nothing new. Age verification processes have been around for some years, takes about five minutes.

Taking advantage of game mechanics = smart

Taking advantage of broken game mechanics instead of immediately reporting them = exploit

Pretty sure the Goons have done a bit of both. But in the case of the tech moons, no exploit there so no intervention required.

Sorry OP, but you will have to develop a little more patience.In time these things correct themselves.

hah yeah I know most aren't under 18, but I know of some that are, and some of those are rather annoying. But even that is really besides the point, as it's not a good environment for kids (any part of EVE). Actually most mmo's had that in EULA early on, only a few do now, and those using age verification to enforce it; as early on in mmo's there was no way to enforce it. I know CCP won't of course, they have become a little money conscious in recent years, money is money.

Personaly im fine with fact that goons are rich and they are owners of rich moons, if not goonswarm, someone else become owner, hovewer rare moons generate to much isk than they should, they produce infinity enormus isk incomes, above alliance needs, so in fact this is not good to game economy.

Star Wars would suck balls without the Empire. The fact you seem unable to organize a Rebel Alliance is something else. But if you want to do something about it then that's what you should be doing, I think.

Wow, this thread is still going? I had this down for ISD locking ages ago.

Also, seriouspost time:

And if this hasn't already been mentioned, fixed resources are in fact a good thing for the metagame as a conflict driver. If I was working for CCP, would I do it in a different way? Yeah. However, I doubt suddenly changing a major system of the game in a drastic way would be a clever idea; which is why all the things in the pipeline for moongoo is a drawn-out process. This all goes back to a Farms and Fields initiative.

I should probably write a massive wall-of-text spergpost about how I'd implement such a system sometime, that's the in thing to do right?